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N8116J

Piper PA-28-161

N8116J is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Chapel Hill Flying Club INC DBA, a corporation in Sanford, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 10, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-161
Serial number
28-8016125
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AB1046 (octal 52610106)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 10, 2021
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 10, 1979
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00280132

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Chapel Hill Flying Club INC DBA
Type
Corporation
Address
702 Rod Sullivan Rd
Sanford, NC 27330-9283
Co-owners
Wings Of Carolina Flying Club

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data